{"id":484,"date":"2008-03-08T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-03-08T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T02:11:45","slug":"the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion &#8212; Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bluesexplosionorange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-893\" title=\"The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Orange\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bluesexplosionorange.jpg\" alt=\"The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Orange\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Orange<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1994<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1994 &#8211; Maybe Plan 9 in Richmond, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Blues is number one. The Blues&#8230; is number one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh man I love this record. I can thank Bob Schick for turning me on to <em>Orange<\/em>. He told me to listen to the &#8220;fast violins&#8221; in the extended intro to &#8220;Bell Bottoms.&#8221; And the violins do indeed make it special. It sounds like an intense orchestral score in lockstep with a minimalist art rock blues trio, complete with some chanting, shouting gang vocals near the end. That&#8217;s how the album opens and I can&#8217;t imagine it being any better, but my favorite song on the record is the second one, &#8220;Ditch.&#8221; It has a great guitar hook that makes me want to get down in the ditch with them and start digging.<\/p>\n<p>The band shortened their name to just Blues Explosion a few years ago, but I keep this record under &#8220;S.&#8221; Jon Spencer&#8217;s earlier band Pussy Galore did nothing for me, and to some degree I&#8217;m still surprised that the smart-ass vibe of JSBX doesn&#8217;t take the steam out of music. But believe me it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some songs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jsbluesexplosion\">The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion<\/a> at their MySpace, especially &#8220;Bell Bottoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Title: Orange Year: 1994 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1994 &#8211; Maybe Plan 9 in Richmond, VA Keeper: Yes &#8220;The Blues is number one. The Blues&#8230; is number one.&#8221; Oh man I love this record. I can thank Bob Schick for turning me on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,454],"tags":[517,586,46,914,1033],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-s","tag-517","tag-blues-explosion","tag-music","tag-punk-blues","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}